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"This book shares what a diverse array of Jewish thinkers have said about the interrelated questions of God, the Book, the Jewish people, and the Land of Israel. Accessible chapters present fascinating insights from ancient times to today, from Philo to Judith Plaskow. An intrig…
Memory in ancient Rome and early Christianity
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What and how do people remember? Who controls the process of what we call cultural or social memory? What is forgotten and why? People's memories are not the same as history written in retrospect ; they are malleable and an ongoing process of construction and reconstruction. Anc…
Paru en 1977, le livre a connu immédiatement un succès très important : résultat de quinze ans de travaux sur plus d'un millénaire d'histoire occidentale, cette somme a animé et dominé un vaste mouvement de recherches et de publications sur les attitudes en face de la mort. Le g…
"Essais sur l'histoire de la mort en OccidentAprès l'histoire de la famille, Philippe Ariès a consacré ses recherches à l'histoire des attitudes de l'homme occidental devant la mort. Il livre ici l'essentiel de ses découvertes, à savoir comment on est passé progressivement de la…
Personal genomics services such as 23andMe and Ancestry.com now offer what once was science fiction: the ability to sequence and analyze an individual's entire genetic code--promising, in some cases, facts about that individual's ancestry that may have remained otherwise lost. S…
Creationism and its critics in Antiquity
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Creationism and its critics in antiquity
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The world is configured in ways that seem systematically hospitable to life forms, especially the human race. Is this the outcome of divine planning or simply of the laws of physics? Ancient Greeks and Romans famously disagreed on whether the cosmos was the product of design or …
Ce livre illustre les réflexions du savant sur les outils et catégories utilisés par l'historien des religions pour décrire et comparer des concepts aussi évanescents que les religions, les mythes ou les rituels, et sur le rôle joué par les émotions dans leur élaboration. À trav…
